News

• 09/27/2009  

The Passing of Bill Safire The Executive Committee and Governing Board of the Neuroethics Society express their sadness on the passing of William Safire, who died of pancreatic cancer on September 27, 2009. Bill Safire was best known as a Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist for the New York Times and for his articles and books on language. It is less well known that as Chairman of the Dana Foundation, Bill Safire was a central driving force in the field of Neuroethics. In 2002 the Dana Foundation sponsored a conference entitled Neuroethics: Mapping the Field. Arguably this meeting crystallized the importance of creating a Neuroethics Society. With Bill Safire’s advice and support from the Dana Foundation, this society has come into existence and flourished.We are fortunate to have had Bill Safire as a friend, advisor, and supporter. For more information, please see the Dana Foundation's website.

• 05/02/2009

Video seminars on Neuroscience and Society featuring NS members. Click to watch the following 5-10 min talks on YouTube: Living in a Neurosociety (Farah); What Lurks Behind the Brain Image: Differentiating Neuroscience from Neuro-Bunk (Aguirre), Are Better  Brains Better? (Chatterjee); Transhumanism: Enabling and Transcending the Human Brain (Schneider); The Criminal Brain: How, Could and Should We Change It? (Raine); and The Brain and National Defense (Moreno).

• 04/30/2009

Neuroethics in Canada. A report on "Neuroethics in Canada: Perspectives and Future Directions" is available from the National Core for Neuroethics at the University of British Columbia. If you wish to receive a copy, please send your request to Mr. Neil Chahal at neil.chahal@ubc.ca

• 04/14/2009

Neuro Talk. With recent advances in neuroscience, questions of brain ethics are  popping up in the public sphere. A group of world renowned neuroscientists, ethicists, and journalists met at The Banff Centre in March to discuss new ways to engage the public in neuroethics. Discovery.ca is the host website of the first media productions of this ongoing collaborative project. Click here to find out what the members of Neurotalk are saying about the future. 

• 03/10/2008

The Neuroethics Society participation in Brain Awareness Week. The Neuroethics Society supports Brain Awareness Week with events in
Vancouver and Philadelphia, and urges all members to consider organizing public outreach activities to increase awareness of neuroscience and its role in society. For more information, see http://brainweek.dana.org/